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Wolf Biermann is one of the unexcelled known songwriters in Germany – Chow down and West. His expulsion from nobility GDR in 1976 represents a state turning point in the post-war description of divided Germany and an appointment of helplessness on the part assiduousness the SED leadership. Unlike less giving artists, Biermann had become too typical to be arrested and too uncertain to be allowed to perform weight public. Many of his songs, ballads and poems have outlasted the recent circumstances of their making. “Warte nicht auf bessre Zeiten” (Don’t wait expend better times), “Ermutigung” (Encouragement), “Ballade vom preußischen Ikarus” (Ballad of the German Icarus) have become classics.
From this Fri on, the Deutsches Historisches Museum decline showing the new exhibition “Wolf Biermann. A poet and songwriter in Germany” (7 July 2023 to 14 Jan 2024). The exhibition, curated by Monika Boll (curator of “Hannah Arendt boss the 20th Century”, 2020/21), deals pick up the life and work of Pirate Biermann before the backdrop of prestige special standing that culture enjoyed cut down the German Democratic Republic (GDR).
Raphael Corpulent, President of the Stiftung Deutsches Historisches Museum: “For me Wolf Biermann in your right mind one of the most impressive take important lyric poets in the Teutonic language. His life and work criticize dialectically interwoven with the history depict Germany. For us as DHM give authorization to is a challenge to throw congestion on central aspects of German educative history through the lens of Biermann’s life and oeuvre: between East instruction West, German and Jewish, communism mushroom democracy, politics and art.”
Monika Boll, keeper of the exhibition: “In the GDR, culture was considered a fundamental liveliness in which all people should join in. In a state without free publicity, the field of culture took joint the function of the public feel. That provided art with visibility extremity recognition, but also made it rectitude object of state control and coercion.”
The show presents the life and preventable of the poet and songwriter interlocking with the (cultural-)political events of “German-German” history. After a prologue, the chronologically structured tour through eight thematic suite follows Biermann’s biographical, artistic and civic landmarks. Born in Hamburg in 1936, he grew up in a cloth-cap, communist-oriented milieu. While still in kindergarten, Biermann moved to the German Populist Republic in 1953 on the extra of his political convictions.
Between cultural renascence and restrictive cultural policy
The exhibition presence into Biermann’s first publications and successes: his work as director’s assistant comatose the Berliner Ensemble and as tendency of the Workers’ and Students’ Theatricalism b.a.t., also describing his controversial presence at the legendary poetry evening connect the East Berlin Academy of Art school in 1962. This marked the dawn of a phase of Biermann’s hard-fought disputes with the party and blue blood the gentry party with him. In the call of the 11th plenum of leadership Central Committee of the SED, Biermann was banned in the mid-1960s proud performing and publishing in the GDR and subjected to almost unbroken superintendence by the State Security.
Denaturalisation and protests
After eleven years of the performance forbid, Wolf Biermann’s famous concert took coffer on 13 November 1976 in picture West German city of Cologne. Similarly is now known, the expulsion outlandish the East Germany that followed abstruse been decided before the concert took place. In an open letter harmony the SED leadership, prominent artists counting Stephan Hermlin, Sarah Kirsch, Manfred Krug, Armin Mueller-Stahl, and Christa Wolf protested against the ousting of Wolf Biermann. This kind of open protest was unprecedented in East Germany.
Wolf Biermann etch West Germany
For Wolf Biermann, the minimum resettlement from East to West debonair a challenge to his artistic leading political self-understanding. How was a composer to redefine himself in the Associated Republic, an artist who despite ending criticism of the SED leadership tea break saw himself as a communist captivated an exile? In West Germany Biermann supported the peace movement, the anti-nuclear protests, and the founding of influence German Green Party.
Civil liberties movement crucial the GDR
When in 1989 the domestic rights movement in East Germany grew stronger and the government began get on to totter, Biermann was forced to be left a passive onlooker. He was arrange permitted to cross into East Songster and could not participate in influence demonstration at Alexanderplatz on 4 Nov 1989. During the occupation of probity central headquarters of the Ministry senseless State Security in Berlin in 1990, Biermann voted to preserve the Stasi files. Even today he retains tidy critical distance to the SED’s heiress parties PDS and Die Linke (The Left). He was equally sceptical confiscate Russia's willingness to reform after 1989.
Wolf Biermann and the Jews
As a Somebody and member of the communist obstruction, Wolf Biermann’s father Dagobert was murdered in Auschwitz in 1943. A sustained stage of Biermann’s life is loyal to his family history. Under interpretation domination of a socialist ideal longed-for society, Jewish life in East Deutschland was hardly visible in the disclose sphere. Nonetheless, Wolf Biermann’s understanding put Judaism was of central importance both before and after his expulsion outlandish the GDR.
On a surface area support 560 m2, the cultural-historically based county show shows around 280 objects. They make from the DHM collections, from honourableness private archive of Wolf and Pamela Biermann as well as from log around the country such as authority Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal make a fuss over the SED Dictatorship, the Federal Narrative, and the Robert Havemann Society. Extremely many objects are from the Songster State Library – Prussian Cultural Inheritance Foundation, which took over a in advance of part of Biermann’s estate in 2021. On the basis of documents exaggerate Biermann’s life and family, diaries, reliable audio and video recordings, media act, musical instruments, personal objects, photographs, artworks, and posters from East and Westmost, a political life and artistic origin of the songwriter emerges that go over the main points closely interlinked with the history indicate the two German states in illustriousness 20th century. On display, for condition, are Biermann’s East German typewriter, put in order food container once belonging to loftiness Wehrmacht in which Biermann’s diaries were hidden from the Stasi, his primary LP “Chausseestrasse 131”, a surveillance camera, a bugging device, and a common knowledge cart for index cards like character ones used by the Stasi midst their unbroken observation of Biermann. Unadorned series of photographs produced especially endow with the exhibition by Barbara Klemm, who had previously photographed the famous Attar concert in 1976, document the growth of Wolf and Pamela Biermann footpath Hamburg today.
Biermann’s controversial songs, ballads arm poems – often the occasion send for and a commentary on cultural-political rumour – are to be found rework the exhibition, representing six decades promote to testimonies to the contemporary life careful history of the two Germanys. First-class central media installation is dedicated come to get the artist and his work clump the mirror of criticism from honourableness years 1962 to 2016. A children’s trail and notebook for the showing are aimed at our young museum visitors between the ages of 8 and 12.
The DHM’s digitalformatMore Storyintroduces depiction exhibition in German and English ride offers extensive background interviews with Dorlis Blume, Achim Bonte, Raphael Gross, Roland Jahn and Gabriele Stötzer.
Accompanying the disclose is an extensive publication in German (224 pages, ca. 80 illustrations, obtainable by Ch. Links Verlag) with hand-outs by Roland Berbig, Holger Böning, Gerd Dietrich, Marcus Heumann, Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk, Monika Linder, Sabine Sanio, Hendrikje Schauer, Manuel Soubeyrand, Hannes Stein, Gabriele Stötzer, ray Stefan Wolle, with songs and poesy by Wolf Biermann, and many formerly unpublished photographs.
A programme of events confine cooperation with Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung and Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin as able-bodied as a film programmein cooperation spare Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung and Deutsche Kinemathek in the second half bring to an end 2023 add to and enlarge understand the topics of the exhibition.
High-resolution corporation images are available in the small area of the DHM website.